skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience with JSON API is that it doesn't come with the out-of-box tooling that GraphQL comes with. GraphQL is declarative enough that just writing the queries, mutations, and types gives you UI documentation and a GraphiQL playground. I still prefer the simplicity of a REST API, but GraphQL is clearly winning on the tooling front.
From my understanding of messing with Mastodon a bit, users can "subscribe" to other servers in the 'fediverse'. The proposed personal instance can act as a "Home" server and is a part of your handle in a way. It almost functions like a sub identifier. You can browse and interact all throughout the fediverse on a number of topics, while linking people back to the server you came from during engagement.
That's interesting! What are the most notable aspects of gender-role variation you've observed across cultures as it affects your own job?
It depends on what your personal philosophy of blocklists is. If you believe that on a supermassive social network that no single person's content is worth anything and can safely discarded then what you're interested in is signal and a low false negative rate.

Who a person follows is a pretty strong signal of their values. Is it always accurate, no, you stand as an example of such a person but their feed is still full and the kind of people they have in mind they don't want to see are gone.

Reddit has a similar culture with extensions that let you hide users that subscribe to or have ever posted in certain subreddits. It works better than it has any right to.
B/c the conversion to Euro happened later. It was already fixed after the hyper inflation in 1997.

The initital rate was 1000 levs = 1 DM, in 1999 there was a denomination of 1000 : 1, same year the Euro happened and the Deutsche mark enjoyed the same rate to the Euro.
> If I see someone whose posts are abhorrent and someone is following them, then I understand that they share values in some way and I don't want to see them either

yeah, a lot of bluesky members seem to hold this attitude - but it is not correct & moreso incentivizes epistemic bad practices
OP here.

I visited their clinics for my daughter several times when she was a toddler for ear aches and other ailments— I found the experience refreshing: instant online booking, no BS registration and online communication with staff was seamless. Very sad to see them go so abruptly.

Up until this morning when I was told they were gone, I had no idea they were YC or otherwise VC funded. Just came here to pour one out for a genuinely helpful and pleasant medical company.
What I've Learned from AI-Assisted Programming
This year we got to have a cluster of talks that were about not-entirely-Emacs things, and last year we had one about Lem too (https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/emacsen/). We've figured out multiple tracks, so we can handle cross-pollinating with other communities while still keeping lots of stuff for people who want to focus on Emacs. Proposals welcome! =)
I assume you meant to write "XTF" (where X=T or O) not "XFT" then.

Although even then, using XTF as an abbreviation for TTF/OTF is highly nonstandard. Those four extra characters greatly increase the likelihood that you'll be understood
Do you use lava lamps to generate your random numbers?
This is a great product!
It’s an HN “read the room” submission. It’s contextually related to earlier discussion about Apple Photos phoning home without a direct reference to it.
You can buy catastrophic healthcare coverage, can't you?
Out of curiosity, can you list the diseases you mentioned?
I worked on the API and SDKs at Stripe alongside Brandur, and honestly I was a little surprised to see him say that too.

I also think the underlying API has to be good for the overall DX to be good, even if these days most devs want static types and thus SDKs for any nontrivial API.

(Thanks for the kind words on the Stripe Node.js SDK btw - I do hope the world can standardize more around good SDK design patterns, just as with good REST design patterns!)
Ask HN: How do I efficiently use learning material?
When learning, there's kind of two contradicting schools of thought. On one hand, I'm told to slow down and really understand the material. This takes a lot of time. And on the other, I'm told to not worry about getting everything understood and totally correct the first time and to just keep moving forward. This results in me not learning the material and having to go back later, which you could argue may take even longer.

So as I've accrued a plethora of "must read" books, I'm sitting here wondering how I'll actually have time in my life to finish many of them. I've heard people studying math say they may spend up to a week on a single page until they understand it. If that's actually true, how the hell am I supposed to make long strides in becoming well learned in computer science and software?

I really want to read more, but it almost feels like a waste if I can't get through the material in a reasonable amount of time. Are my expectations just really skewed?
Years ago there was a system that would track code coverage per test and would rerun only the tests that intersected with the lines you changed., as a more specific watch command.

But watch itself still has a lot of value, because it starts in the gap between when you save changes and get curious about the state of the tests.
this is important to think about, but more important is to not ever ever let this sort of nonsense stop you blaming a human.

if people outsource "target detection" to some software, they personally are responsible for what it does.

if people outsource the actual murdering to some software, they personally are responsible for those deaths.

a human made the decision to permit this and the entire consequences of it should be on their head. we can never ever let the people who wrote and/or approved the software escape blame for what it does.

we're already seeing this with self-driving cars - which individual at uber should be serving sentences for their cars killing someone? or did we accidentally make murder completely legal as long as you obfuscate the cause chain enough?
It’s not that simple. Pretax premiums could be wiped out with the stroke of a pen.

I worked at an entity with 300+ thousand employees and Probably another 200k retirees… I was able to pay full cost to retain my health insurance from them.

The benefits and out of pocket costs are incredible - my current CEO asked me why I do that rather that use the company insurance and I walked through it with him. It’s not possible to buy that coverage, between the legacy insurance plan and huge risk pool, only the largest entities can have the best insurance.

The “simple answer” is pretty easy. Put a 10% payroll tax with a $5M income cap, and build out Medicare with whatever benefits are doable under that cost structure. Let the market compete for extended benefits, which would work like a traditional insurance market.

The doctors and medical industries would be happy. People would gain newfound job mobility and freedom. Most people would save money vs the payments they make today. Rich people would be sad because taxes.
AI going down the Cold Fusion path ? Not much of a surprise to me
Because there's a single payor that tells providers how much things are going to cost. The short answer for why US healthcare is so expensive is that Americans are economically disconnected from the price of the healthcare they are consuming. There is absolutely no free market system happening there because almost all the costs are hidden behind insurance schemes.
I remember when I got into the world of startups and businesses. GigaOm.com was a big deal.

A Silicon Valley Startup acquired my service company. We were told a whole lot of new terms, including but not limited to the Bus Factor, not to ride the Mumbai-Pune expressway with all the founding team in one car, etc. Om’s news was all over the Internet then, and suddenly, we were scared of the life of Startup stress.

Around that time, Om wrote about our launch[1] in a snippet, among many other web 2.0 launches. This was also the time when Om and a few others wrote about a blog post that knocked off $4 billion off Apple's Market Cap.

https://brajeshwar.com/2007/mixercast-the-cat-is-already-sho...
Antitrust enforcement is so hit-or-miss, contingent upon risky prosecution in court and a DOJ willing to undertake it, and with no ability to scale. It has made me wonder whether a statutory approach may be better, where companies past a certain [relative] size threshold would need to split up. Then it would be no surprise to shareholders and consumers wouldn’t need to be harmed for years before maybe regulators would dare step in. I think it would do a lot for the US competitively, too, to ensure the market remains dynamic. Sustained vigorous competition seems likelier to serve us better in the long run than boosterism of our largest companies.
If US regulation prohibits China from training LLMs? How?

If you mean trying to stop GPUs getting to China, US already has tried that with specific GPU models, but China still gets them.

Seems hard/impossible to do. Even if US and CCP were trying to stop Chinese citizens and companies doing LLM stuff
> a new API version also presents an opportunity to clear out blemishes, and I expected to see more of that

Curious, what are some other Stripe API blemishes that folks would have liked to see cleaned up in a v2?
“Is it expected that people only ever want to see content that aligns with their views in their feed?”

It is for those that need safe spaces. I love hearing the nonsense on both sides so I’m sure I would be blocked by people not ready to listen to such views due to fragility issues.
I can speak to a couple of perspectives I have seen other people use it for, ranging from valid to somewhat scary.

1. Preparing a sermon for Church, I don't advocate for this, but it's definitely being done out there. Here, the pastor may know the topic they are speaking on, but want the LLM to help them plan out the message and structure it.
2. Preparing lesson plans for Sunday School. This seems reasonably fine to me, but I would still err on the side of not trusting the raw scriptures output as evidence, and instead look them up separately before reading them out.

The above examples may particularly come into play when English is not a first language, since although they can understand and express their faith easily in their native language, ChatGPT can help them represent it in English well.

Personally, I think the use cases are many, but mostly for discussion / personal reflection. These include things like asking for perspectives that other Christians take on certain passages, helping understand how some scriptures link to other scriptures in the Bible, and sometimes even exploring some of the history of the Christian faith through the last ~2 millennia since it was written.
Anything meaningful you can manually research further / reference before taking it at face value, but it can work as a great starting point for your search.
Ah yes, you're right. I spoke to soon. I just checked on the latest Beta simulator and, sure enough, it is checked, with a fresh install and no iCloud account.

At least that proves the service is accessible anonymously (i.e., without an identifying iCloud token)
This is wishful thinking. It would be nice, I agree, but. Even "guaranteed lower bound of optimization" for general purpose programs is off the table. Our tools for programming should be such that easy problems are easy to solve, and hard problems are possible to solve. There will always be hard problems. Single-threaded, synchronous code is not congruent with actual hardware constraints, and this has been the case for decades. And to the people advocating for async/await or green threads or similar, they are necessary, but even green threads don't compare to the ergonomics of single-threaded and synchronous code.
As I recall, Russia was making a habit of cutting across Turkey's airspace and they were officially warned before the shoot-down.
I may be misremembering.
> All you need for non-CBTC operation is a driver who can see.

Wikipedia's article on CBTC [0] seems to want to limit the term to moving block systems only, not including fixed block – I'm not sure if that is correct or if that is just some agenda some Wikipedia editor has.

But it seems to me that even in a fixed block system, the train could operate (semi-automatically) if it knew its location and the location and current state of signals – and the current signal state could be broadcast to it via radio. Would you call such a system CBTC or not?

Also, it seems to me that fixed block with physical signals and moving block CBTC could coexist on the same line. Moving block CBTC trains are authorised to disregard red signals, and instead get their movement authority via radio; fixed block trains are not. If a fixed block train is in a fixed block, that locks the block out for all trains (both fixed and moving); if a moving block train is in a fixed block, that locks the block out for all fixed block trains; but two moving block trains can coexist in the same fixed block provided their moving blocks are non-overlapping.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications-based_train_con...
The linked page is the one that said:

> We all know that custom, hand-made, artisan-crafted, boutique tools are always better than something factory made.

This is wrong and he debunked it.
The keyboard might add quite a bit to the cost, I'm seeing around $25 minimum for a set of MX compatible switches.
It did work really well for a ton of computers in the same room in a line however.
That's a proper speculation, not very much grounded in the reality. Also the Euro is not accepted to this day in retail in Bulgaria.
Your implausible estimate got me curious; so I checked[1,2] the first couple of result from Google on email marketshare. GMail is 27.7%. Apple has double the share, at 54%, you should be worried about Apple instead.

1. https://www.litmus.com/email-client-market-share

2. https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/most-used-email-clients
Eventually consistent list endpoints!? How did they justify/explain that? Do they provide guidance on how to work around it?
Embassy of the Free Mind
In IT (BBS's) since 1993 or so. Owned a computer store and an ISP. New Mexico. First time I've heard it as well.
Not that this will convince anyone currently attempting to rewrite this out of history (or determined to believe those who rewrite history), but the media panic, reporting on the scientific discussion, was much broader than that. The scientific studies and opinions varied - it was not one-sided, but the "ice age" predictions were much more marketable, at least.

5 minutes of checking found three issues of Time, one from 1994.

* 24 Jun 1974 https://time.com/archive/6878023/another-ice-age/ (well-known)
* 13 Nov 1972 https://time.com/archive/6844319/science-another-ice-age/ ("refuses to speculate")
* 31 Jan 1994 https://time.com/archive/6724662/the-ice-age-cometh/ ("the greenhouse effect could heat up the planet for a while but then trigger changes that could plunge the earth into a sudden chill.")

Here are others:

* “The Earth’s Cooling Climate,” Science News, November 15, 1969
* “Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age,” Washington Post, January 11, 1970.
* “Science: Another Ice Age?” Time Magazine, June 24, 1974.
* “The Ice Age Cometh!” Science News, March 1, 1975.
* “The Cooling World,” Newsweek, April 28, 1975.
* “Scientists Ask Why World Climate is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead,” New York Times, May 21, 1975.
* “In the Grip of a New Ice Age?” International Wildlife July-August, 1975.
* “A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable,” New York Times, September 14, 1975.
* “Variations in the Earth’s Orbit, Pacemaker of the Ice Ages,” Science magazine, December 10, 1976.
It would be really helpful to know what government you are referring to.
Escape the Silicon Valley Filter Bubble
Not powerful enough to power an ecig coil... they would die after a few pulls at most.
Because it's far more enforceable.
I'm the OP, yes I did not provide much evidence in that specific article, and I'm getting to the point, based on responses that there might be some irregularities between search methods for model specific drivers, so Im willing to admit I might be wrong about this, but the security features that are included in consumer hardware BIOS these days and the way OEM manufactures are designing OEM products leads me to believe that we are moving in a direction that is more closed and locked down, which its not good for the enthusiast community and in the long term, bad for society. We can even see this in other system build vendors ASUS. I have published other articles [0] related to what I believe a slow move towards locked down consumer hardware.

[0]: https://www.scottrlarson.com/categories/deceptivetechnology/
Tour de force, truly. Amazing work!
KAG – Knowledge Graph RAG Framework
You could say that. I have found that a lot of guides produced by folks on Hacker News to be generally interesting. Probably too much free time? Either way a guide of guides does seem like a good use of that free time.
There are clearly abuses, and the abuses should be addressed; it will also be good for the valid H1-B applicants. One simple solution is to raise the salary threshold. H1-B for store managers is obviously not justified.

On the other hand, there's no question that H1-B or similar programmes help the American economy enormously. Especially for talented graduates from top American universities. Why not hire them if you don't have to pay for their education? They even contribute significantly to the coffers of American universities, indirectly allowing Americans to study at a much cheaper price.
A good thing about machine proofs is that, just like code, they can be refactored. I also use LLMs when writing code, but the code that I end up pushing is almost never exactly what the LLM has generated. I don't really see the problem with that. It's way less taxing for me mentally to get an LLM to generate definition and implementations and just refactor them quickly. I would expect LLMs for lean to be similar in the future.
The Treasury Department’s capital “stress tests” seem to have been a good thing, though?
I completely agree, if you use software or tech to aid you in killing, you are still fully responsible for the deaths.
I'm waiting on "Code" by Petzold to arrive, which I'm hoping will scratch a similar itch, but this seems like a really great way to do it! The nand2tetris course seems so very great. Emulating it all in C sounds fun.
You’re correct but this is pretty interesting and I’m sure helpful for people in Berlin!
UHC is planning on releasing AI for their healthcare denials, they’ve been murdering for quite awhile without AI so I doubt this will change anything
I think that the colors here (in this screen-world) are 99% mental. Like everything else here. Which is to say, it is not the configuration of the dots or their color that significate, it is the meanings and memories that they evoke. 1% of the game happens on the screen and the other 99% happens inside your head.

Which makes the whole thing a bit solipsistic when you think about it.
Because that's what someone decided on and people settled on. Houseless vs unhoused... shrug language follows use, and that's what some folks use.
> Is it expected that people only ever want to see content that aligns with their views in their feed?

Emphatically no, and it’s one of the things that I dislike about what blocklists have become on Bluesky.

The fact that many people now view follows as some kind of endorsement speaks to how much social media has deteriorated and arguably makes the polarization problem worse - not just because people are making themselves ignorant of what public figures are saying, but they’re isolating themselves from the people they actually do align with who choose to keep themselves informed, further reinforcing the echo chamber.

Depending on your primary reason for using social media, I realize how attractive it is to quickly lock down your feeds. But it comes with a dark side, and blocking someone for no reason other than following an account is part of that dark side IMO.
AI trial to spot heart condition before symptoms
So but how do we build software that can be anything without falling into the Zombocom trap? I believe that Bezos interview shows us exactly how.

[insert list here]

No offense, I'm from GenX, we were doing those things before Bezos came along in fact that was the norm. See VisiCalc one paragraph up for an example. Attempting to create markets for your product like with the Metaverse or blockchain solutions versus just creating products for an actual market that already exists is a relatively new phenomena in the industry. I don't know why we started doing this to begin with.
Here's more LLMs

https://beta.gitsense.com/?chats=ba5f73ac-ad76-45c0-8237-57a...

The left window contains all the models that were asked and the right window contains a summary of the LLM responses. GPT-4o mini got it right but the super majority got it wrong, which is scary.

It wasn't until the LLM was asked to count out the R's that it acknowledges that GPT-4o mini was the only one that got it right.

Edit: I've disabled chatting in the app, since I don't want to rack up a bill. Should have mentioned that.
People do not synthesize drugs on their own without any prior knowledge. They take university organic chemistry classes and then start synthesizing drugs. The cooking analogy would be studying at a culinary school prior to preparing pufferfish without a license.
GL is only a drawing API. Then you need to handle fonts (layout, rendering), input and focus (including compose and input methods), actual window management, ...

Things quickly become quite a lot less trivial than it initially seemed, and then you end up needing an actual toolkit.

You can certainly pick a more minimal one than a browser, but any application now requires a non-trivial toolkit.

> Qt6 does include a JS engine, but hopefully it's a bit more isolated.

I wouldn't expect Qt and Gtk's JavaScript engines to be better isolated than Chrome. They're just more avoidable.
/thread

and well said.
That’s 20.83% I don’t think it’s that far off.

I just opened screen time in my iPhone, checked devices for phone, selected weekly tab, and flipped back last few weeks to get average of 42 hours per week, with 168 hours in a week puts me at 25% for December.

I’m apparently above average!
Which is why parent is calling for standardization, so that people don't usually need to be experts. I reject that there are a diverse range of async abstractions that are all justified such that a given OS only supports some well. More likely, that means the designs are poorly done. Although I can't say anything if it's for backwards compatibility, how I loathe and crave it.
That’s clients.

People add their Gmail account to their iPhone and get Apple Mail.

Virtually all email goes to Gmail between personal accounts and GSuite stuff.
CompactFlash cards are still running as IDE drives.